Tracking navigation flows within the same browser tab

摘要

Various embodiments enable navigation flows that occur within a single tab to be tracked through the use of identifiers that are created and passed between client-side and server-side software. The client-side and server-side software work in concert to utilize these identifiers to track navigation within a particular tab. In at least some embodiments, a client can request a web page from within a tab and, responsive to that request, a server can create an identifier and associate the identifier with the web page. The web page and identifier can then be returned to the client. Subsequent web page requests from within the tab include the identifier so that the server knows that the request came from the same tab.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a web page navigation indication comprising a request for a web page from within a web application's first tab; ascertaining the web page navigation indication is not directed to navigation within the first tab; sending the request to a server that provides the web page, the request not including an identifier directed to tab-specific navigation tracking; responsive to sending the request, receiving from the server the web page including an identifier directed to tab-specific navigation tracking in a shared session of the web application from within an additional tab that is unique within the context of an associated session cookie, the session cookie shared with the first tab; using the received identifier from the server in subsequent web page requests from within the additional tab; and not using the received identifier in web page requests from other tabs.